undoubtly, these are interesting times to live.  interesting... and unnerving.  but, at some point, they will but a few words in a history book which, of course, will be written by some team of authors who filter their words through their own world view.  what will be their assessment of this time?

what will they surmise of government take over and bail outs?  what will be said of party-switching and pay-offs?  what possible conclusions will they come to?  what will they learn from us?

may it be that the people fought to be represented.  may it be that americans understood and utilized their right to be heard.  may it be that we had the right to be involved with changing the course of our nation and did something with that right.  and that can be viewed and filtered through any world view if given the opportunity to consider its truth.

"the north wind doth blow, and we shall have snow..."

keeps running through my mind as i listen to the chilling sounds of the gusting, invisible force of nature that pushes twigs where they do not wish to go and makes the birds' flight treacherous.

time for another log on the fire.

the quiet buzz of the monitor.
the random drop of water off the tree.
the whole house still sleeps.
but not my heart...

searching,
scanning,
looking,
hoping...
to find You in this quiet place.

canon has quite possibly forever won a friend in me.  i found out that the problem that my camera is experiencing is covered under a provision given not too recently.  they don't need my receipt or date of purchase.  they are just going to fix it.  wow.